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take me out
Apr. 12th, 2012 12:52 pm
opening day. play ball!
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I have an asteriod named after me!
(154378) Hennessy = 2002 XR115
Discovered 2002 Dec. 14 by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point.
Gregory Hennessy (b. 1963) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey's astrometric pipeline.
(154378) Hennessy = 2002 XR115
Discovered 2002 Dec. 14 by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point.
Gregory Hennessy (b. 1963) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey's astrometric pipeline.
Is this fate?
Mar. 22nd, 2012 11:01 pmSo Pam and I take the mother in law to a baseball game every year. This year the MIL wanted to see the Yankees in July. We had to buy tickets in pairs, so that leaves one ticket. Pam and I were trying to figure out who might enjoy the ticket, and we came up wth CTan. but we figured the odds of her being in the dc area was low. So I sent her email, and she's going to be at at conference in silver spring that weekend. I figure it's fate.
Hey Reedrover
Feb. 14th, 2012 10:56 amWant to teach your goats to jump?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Da3WEEIeSUQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Da3WEEIeSUQ
interesting idea
Jan. 28th, 2012 12:09 pmOn May 20th there will be an annular eclipse, visible in the western part of the country. Looking at the path of the eclipse, I notice that Albuquerque is very near the center line. I'm thinking that a weekend visit, and a hike to Sandia Peak to watch the eclipse, then dinner at the restaurant at the top to watch the sunset is a nifty idea. Anyone one else think it is a nifty idea?
Bujold PSA
Jan. 27th, 2012 01:13 pmFrom the Bujold mailing list:
o, not that kind....
The date for the publication of _Captain Vorpatril's Alliance_ has been set by Baen as November 6th, 2012.
Note that, this far out, there can still be alterations due to unforeseen circumstances -- _CryoBurn_'s eventual pub date was advanced by a couple of weeks, for example, due to some last-minute publication timing issues -- but this should not be too far out of final alignment.
o, not that kind....
The date for the publication of _Captain Vorpatril's Alliance_ has been set by Baen as November 6th, 2012.
Note that, this far out, there can still be alterations due to unforeseen circumstances -- _CryoBurn_'s eventual pub date was advanced by a couple of weeks, for example, due to some last-minute publication timing issues -- but this should not be too far out of final alignment.
where did i leave that short term memory?
Jan. 12th, 2012 08:36 pmSo far in the past 24 hours I've realized that I don't know where my passport is, where my wife's passport is, or where my wolftrap tickets for Pirates of Penzance are.
Missed dr who
Dec. 27th, 2011 10:40 pmI hate it when I return from being away and found out that my DVR didn't sucessfully record the show I wanted, i.e., the Dr. Who Christmas Special. Does anyone have a copy on DVD?
that was close
Dec. 21st, 2011 06:41 pmI think I just dodged a bullet in that I caught a pipe in the kitchen about to burst, and got the main cuttoff turned off in time. Where in time means 'only about a quart of water is pooled in the cabinet', instead of having a gush of about a quart every few seconds.
Does this qualify as irony?
Dec. 19th, 2011 10:42 amMy workday commute has been adversely affected for well over a year due to the construction of HOT lanes on 495, construction has slowed traffic from I66 onto I495. Saturday the new "flyover" lane opened, and instead of one lane of traffic, the new flyover allows two lanes of traffic, which might speed things up. So, today on my first attempt of using the new bridge, with a hope of a perhaps shorter wait, traffic was all backed up, due to an accident on the new flyover lane. *sigh*
bye bye Huntsman
Dec. 7th, 2011 09:57 amJon Huntsman was the one one conservative I thought wasn't actually brain dead, he had said earlier “To be clear, I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”
However, in order to curry favor with the Tea Party crowd, he's now changed his mind and become a global warming skeptic.
I'll give the tea party a molecule of respect once it stops requiring its members to self lombotomize.
This is my political grump for the day.
However, in order to curry favor with the Tea Party crowd, he's now changed his mind and become a global warming skeptic.
I'll give the tea party a molecule of respect once it stops requiring its members to self lombotomize.
This is my political grump for the day.
fun with budgets
Dec. 2nd, 2011 02:26 pmAs the budgets wind their way through congress really, really late, I noticed
the following two lines back to back,
1) a decision NOT to allow for $322 million dollars for NOAO to fund a climate service center,
2) a decision to fund $2.3 billion dollars of disaster funding for flooding and hurricanes, which are noted to be at "historically high levels".
Some things I can't even bother to raise a good snark over.
the following two lines back to back,
1) a decision NOT to allow for $322 million dollars for NOAO to fund a climate service center,
2) a decision to fund $2.3 billion dollars of disaster funding for flooding and hurricanes, which are noted to be at "historically high levels".
Some things I can't even bother to raise a good snark over.
depression is
Nov. 29th, 2011 02:43 pmHaving your boss ask you for a updated resume so he can pass it around the other department heads in an effort to find some other department that has need of my skills.
Thanksgiving day conversations
Nov. 25th, 2011 08:00 pmDear member of my wife's family, please let me give you a bit of advice. If you ever hear the phrase "I know this will make me sound like a bigot . . ." come out of your mouth, please stop talking. Because you are correct, it does make you sound like a bigot. Of course I figured that out a few years ago when you referred to a pro football player by using the N word.
